PHP :: FILE Type For MySQL ?

File Type
i'm having a problem with a file type it's a news index file .nzb file i can upload it ok, and it's in my database as filename.nzb , i can see it on my server as filename.nzb , but when i go to download it to my desktop it turns into filename.xml, my files allowed code is:

$file_accepted = array("text/xml","application/octet-stream","application/x-gzip-compressed","application/x-xml");
through testing i have seen that the nzb's mime type is:

text/xml
is there anyway to download as an nzb , everytime i try i get filename.xml

To Get A File Name, File Size, File Type...?
Is there a way to get information about a file BEFORE it is submitted to the server?
I am trying to make a upload progress bar from scratch WITHOUT THE PRON.C PHP FIX!!!
I found the file being uploaded in my NET://WINN01910//TEMP folder and I can outputs its file size in a popup with a one second refrehs, but this makes it so the USER needs to know the full file size to know if its anywehre near done.

Is there a way to get the filesize from the clients side? Possibly javascript that uses ajax to submit the values to the server before the file is sent but when it is selected?? Is there an easier way to do this and/or do you have any ajax example code of how it might work?

I also have another problem, Althoguh i can echo the filesize of what is recieved so far, I am just glob()ing the temp folder for: "php*.tmp" but is there a way to tell the tmp file so they don't see everyone's uploads?

Multiple File Upload From Client Pc To Server Without Using <input Type="file"> Cont
I am working on a application which requires me to upload the contents of all the files from a particular folder in clent pc to the server.

In my code i just want to mention the folder name which may contain any number of files.Folder name will always be fixed.
I dont want to use <input type=file > control.

Is there any way i can achieve this using FTP or any other way in PHP.Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Mysql Row Type?
what do I have to set a mysql row to, too be rank them in order when the numbers in the database are Ɔ.00' format?

File Type Is In The Array $ext Or Not
i have this array :

$ext=array ("image/pjpeg" , "image/jpeg" , "image/gif");

i wanna check if the file type is in the array $ext or not, i wrote this :

if($imgtype !=$ext[0] or $imgtype !=$ext[1] or $imgtype !=$ext[2]){
die("error");
}

the $ext maybe will have more file ext., so i need to change the if term always!

Determine The Type Of A File (gif Or Jpg)
I've written a very basic CMS using a PHP database thing (no MySQL). It lets me update a list of 5 descriptive texts, each relating to an image which is shown next to the text.

At the moment, my HTML looks like this (simplified):

<tr><td><img src="images/Picture1.gif"></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="images/Picture2.jpg"></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="images/Picture3.jpg"></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="images/Picture4.gif"></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="images/Picture5.gif"></td></tr>

which is very inelegant as I have to repeat all the information.
I've already written the script to create the 5 table rows dynamically, using a "for" loop with the counting variable $i, so that I can simply write one row and substitute the Picture number with the variable: PHP Code:

Checking File Type
I have a page where I can update some entries in a MySQL database and add a picture. The name of the file (added a timestamp) is stored in the database and the file it self in a directory. I have no problems in the uploading part or in database, but when i tried to add file type checking part it went wrong.

The only allowed type should be .jpg/jpeg, but even though it is possible to upload that type something strange happens when trying to upload a non .jpg: It don't return the $mess ("Wrong file-type"), but instead it jumps to the "IF($img == "none") part and inserts the text in database (which it shouldn't) as if the $img is empty! Code:

Input Type = File
If an input field of type 'file' is left blank, what is returned as the varible? I'm having a problem, I have two file fields and want to be able to do the following:

1. Put in the $file1_name and $file2_name (if there was a file uploaded) into a database so I can reference it later.

2. Copy the uploaded file (if, in fact, there was a new one uploaded) to a directory.

3. Later on, if someone wants to edit that entry and wants to upload a new file for the 2nd slot, or 1st for that matter or delete a file, it should do that with no difficulty.
I'm running into problems when it reaches the 'if' clause. I've tried:

if ($var){
and
if($var != ''){

and no matter what, for some reason these blank file fields alwasy evaluate true to my if statements, so I get an error like 'can't open file 'none' for blah blah'.

Getting File Mime Type
i'm currently doing the attachment for the e-mail system. may i know how to getting the mime type for a attach file selected by a user? if the user select several files with different mime type, how should i handle it?

Mime Type Of A File?
How do I get the mime type of a file on the filesystem?

File Type Checking ...
i'm building a system where i'm uploading some files and checking
the right type of files. Now i'm only allowing the users to upload
pdf, msword and mspowerpoint files. But i need to allow them to
upload Excel, Txt and zip files also.

Can anyone please check and tell me how to do that. I'm using the
following code....

File Type Validation
I am writing a script for uploading files. I want the script to only accept certain filetypes, in order to avoid any bad content. I figured I could do it by checking the MIME-type, or perhaps the file-ending. However, there are quite a number of filetypes I would like to allow, and so I am wondering if I could get some pointers to a more elegant solution than simply "brute-forcing" my way through all the different filetypes.?

Check File Type
I use this to check my files type:

$fileextension = $_FILES['file']['type']; But it returns the files MIME type, such as image/x-png. How can I get it to check the files actual extension? Such as .mp3 and .zip etc.

Getting File Mime Type
I have a simple file upload script. but I want to capture and store the files mime type. What is the easiest way to do this?

MYSQL BOOL TYPE
Im trying to make a setion in my table, true or false, but when i try to make it i get an error. this is what i do and the mistake they say i did. not totaly sure what it means, im using phpmyadmin: SQL query:

ALTER TABLE `user_info` CHANGE `active` `active` BOOL( 5 ) NOT NULL

MySQL said: Documentation #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(5) NOT NULL' at line 1

Mysql Data Type Int(10)
i understand that int is 4 bytes, but what does the (10) means?

Uploading .png And Can't Determine File Type?
I'm currently creating a page where users can upload images and the server will save them to their respective places, but I've run into a snag of sorts.

I currently check to make sure that the file being uploaded is an Image file, but only jpg/gif/png. If it is not one of those three, it rejects the upload. If it is, it will save the file to the server. Now my problem is that when a PNG is uploaded, there's no filetype associated with it. If I check the jpg and gif, I'll get image/jpg and image/gif respectively, but when I check the png, I get nothing, there's nothing returned. Does anyone have any suggestions or maybe seen this before?

Also, I don't want to go and allow any image type to be uploaded. I'd really prefer to allow only those three types.

Obtaining File Mime-type
Does php have a way of obtaining a file mime type other than for images? I'e, a user may upload an image or a short movie clip, i need to know how to deal with it without having to rely on the file extensions. Script may be installed on a windows machine so file() is out of the question unless windows as an alternative to file().

Upload File Type Problem
I developed a simple tool to allow users to upload .GIF image files.

It works great on my dev box and $_FILES['file']['type'] returns
"image/gif", but on the prod site it returns "application/octet-stream".

$_FILES['File']['type'] Returns Nothing
I have an MP3 Upload site, but when a user logs in and uploads a file, more than half of the time the MP3's MIME type returns absolutely nothing!

I don't think it's the code, because some of the music uploads well, it's just about 65% has no MIME! Any explanation?

Confirming Uploaded File Type
I have an upload script that I need to be only able to upload two different file types, ppf and sppf, the mime type of which is application/ovtet-stream. I cannot find a suitable header or footer consistent in all the files, is there any way I can still verify that the files being uploaded are in fact either sppf or ppf, and not simply a renamed exe or some other file? Perhaps a process of elimination, like checking to see whether it does not have the headers you would expect in other files of the mime type application/octet-stream?

Getting File Type From A String Into Anchor
I'm pulling out links from a database, some of them are images, some are movies, some are URLs and some are just download files. I need a way to differentiate each of the to be printed in the anchor tag this is what I'm doing: Code:

MySQL Date Type Vs Varchar In Php..?
What are the real advantages and disadvantages behind using varchar length 15 and populating it with a date using date("m/d/Y") opposed to using a date type field.

When you store a date weather it be of Date or Varchar type the date is the same example:01/01/2002. The only difference I can see is how you search or retrieve data. With SELECT staements it seems to be a piece of cake either way. Just a cariousity question becuase I was told if you are going to search using dates you should make it a date field but I really do not see the difference. In some languages using a Date type field can actually come back to huant you later when you need to take the date out and leave it blank or NULL. (Like VB as a front end with access as a backend).

Determining Type Of MySQL Field.
I have a problem of migrating a database from one host to another.
I can't do a dump on the source server. The only access I have is thru
queries. So it looks like I'm going to have to query all the
tables and insert to the destination.

I'm trying to come up with a general solution to this problem which
uses queries to determine the structure of the source db, and create
the tables on the destination, which I've already done using the nice
"show create table" query syntax combined with the PHP
mysql_list_tables() function.

The problem comes with doing the inserts. It looks like I'm going to
have to do a "select * from table" thing and then loop thru the
recordset doing insert after insert.

Q: Do I have to do it that way? Is there a way I can insert all the
records from source to destination more efficiently?

Q: How can I determine the type of value in a field returned from
a query? PHP's is_string returns true on ALL fields regardless of type
used in the database itself. I need to know whether to wrap the values
in quotes or not before I insert them.

I'd like to be able to at least fetch a record and insert the record
without having to process it. I'd like to grab the whole table and
insert it, but haven't a clue how to do this.

Q: Is there some kind of select/fetch that I can do that will give me a
record ready to insert i.e. with commas and quotes?

MySQL Field Type For Arrays
What type of field type are arrays stuffed into? VARCHAR ? TEXT?

Dynamically Checking Mysql Row Type
Is it possible to check the types of columns in a mysql resultset so you
don't need to know the type of data returned beforehand?

I'd like to be able to do something like:

if($coltype == "datetime") {
// parse date
}else if ($coltype == "varchar") {
// parse string
}

Image Upload - Verify File Type Help
Im having trouble getting this to work, i want to validate that the uploaded image ($picture) is a gif or jpeg.

[php]
// Validate the image type. Should be jpeg, jpg, or gif.
$allowed = array ('image/gif', 'image/jpeg', 'image/jpg');
if (in_array($_FILES['picture']['type'], $allowed))
{
$errors['picture2'] = 'Please ensure the image is a JPEG or GIF.'
}
[/php]

Image Upload Wrong File Type
I make an image, save it as a bmp. If I change the file extention to a .jpg it changes.

My site allows for uploads of jpg, gif, and png. Since the above is actually a bmp, and some one tries to upload it with the jpg file extention, I get this error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreatefrombmp() in /home/.marble/ryannaddy/tzfiles.com/guestLoad.php(11) : eval()'d code on line 1

How can I stop that error from showing, and make my own error message saying somthing about it still being a bmp file, or exe, or html, etc. and only jpg, gif, and png are allowed? Code:

MIME Type Validation For File Upload
I am trying to create a validation for my upload script that will only allow: "jpg" and "JPG" files to be uploaded. My script is below; can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it - please? Code:

Getting The Remote File Path From <input Type="file">
I'm using a form to upload a file to save in a mySQL database, however I need to store the original file path on the clients (the user uploading the file) computer.

The file path is shown in the field that selects the file, I just need to post it or save it in a session somehow.

Best MySQL Field Type For Unix Timestamp?
What do you recommend as the best type of field for a timestamp in a MySQL
database? I've considered varchar(10) or INT but I'm not sure what is the
best, most efficient, and most reliable field type.

Determining Mime Type Of MySQL Blob?
Is there any PHP function that will allow me to determine the MIME type
of a blob stored in MySQL?

Specifically, if I'm storing an image as a blob in MySQL, is there any
PHP function that can determine whether it's a gif, jpeg, png, etc?

SimpleXML And Load Php File (Content-type: Text/xml)
I'm taking my first steps with xml and SimpleXML functions.
xml.php (It could be made dynamically with a mysql result I post this snippet for example)

PHP Code xml.php:

<?php
$xmlstr = "<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>";
$xmlstr .= "<movies>
<movie>Behind the Parser</movie>
</movies>";
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');
echo $xmlstr;
?>

PHP Code loadXml.php:

I've got this nasty error :
Warning: xml.php:2: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in
c:xxxwwwxmlexamplemioplot.php on line 3

Warning: $xmlstr = ""; in c:xxxwwwxmlexampleloadXml.php on line 3

Warning: ^ in c:xxxwwwxmlexampleloadXml.php on line 3
bool(false)

I've got the same error in my web site .

xml.php is a valid xml file, isn't it ?
Therefore I'm wondering why the snippet
doesn't work ?

Validating Uploads BEFORE Uploading A Non Standard File Type
I'm making an upload form for people to upload files in ppf and sppf format, the mime type of which is "application/octet-stream", the files are obviously non standard. I need to be able to check that the file being uploaded is of the type sppf or ppf, only, nothing else, I am uploading using a POST form. I know that I would use javascript and php to get all the characters after the last . (dot) and check that they are equal to either sppf or ppf, but also, I know that someone could create form on a remote server and use my upload url as the action of the form, effectively bypassing any blocks of upload type.

I also know that I could use php after the file is uploaded to discard it if it is not either a sppf or ppf file. What I need to know is this, is there a way to do this before the file is uploaded, without javascript, could I have a middle step? Right now I go directly from the form to upload (in a switch statement, I have default and upload) could I add validate to that switch statement? I don't think that would work, becuase someone could still do it remotely.

Maybe I could, in the upload case of the switch statement, check that the userfile variable (being passed via POST method fromt he form) has the extension sppf or ppf, if it does, it uploads it, if not, it cancels. Would this work, and if not, could someone please give me an alternative to avoid checking after the file is uploaded.

Show Stored Value For Form Field Type=file
I have a file-uploading form to uploads a .jpg file and stores its name in a table in my db as co_bannerfile. I'm trying to now write an update form so the user can update their .jpg file. I've successfully written a query to retrieve the stored file's name.

How can I display the stored file's name so the user can see its name within the input TYPE="file" field and then decide to update it or not? The following doesn't display the stored file name. What do I have wrong? Code:

How To Parse RSS Feeds By Php Code ? Cannot Set Header File Type (xml)
I want to generate a feed file dynamically inside a .php file, but in my browser it looks like a plain file even if the source file contains the right tags, I simplified it to this code (attached), is the header info incorrect or why does the browser read it like a plain file? Code:

Column Data-Type For Storing Serialized Array In MySQL?
I'm really not sure - I used BLOB in the past- but the arrays are only a few kilobytes. But VARHCAR only allows 255 characters at most and the arrays might contain many more characters than that.

Form Type=submit Vs Type=image
I'm wanting to create a form with quite a few SUBMIT buttons that use an image rather then the stock (plain grey) button. Everything works fine when I use this line:

print "<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="editaction" VALUE=$id>";

I know which SUBMIT button was pressed by checking the value of $editaction in the receiving page. Now if I replace that line with this one:

print "<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="icon.gif" NAME="editaction" VALUE=$id>";

I no longer get a value in $editaction. I know about $editaction_x and $editaction_y. Is there no way get to the 'VALUE' (from the VALUE=$id part) as well? Am I missing something? Has the variable name been modified to somthing like $editaction_value?

TIA for any light you can shed.

Validation Return Query? - Type="file"
When a user clicks submit on my form, it will return with a list of errors and will populate all the fields with the correct data that the user has already entered.
ie.. <input name="contact_name" type="text" value="<?print $contact_name; ?>">

... and so on throughout the form. This works fine except for when I try and populate a file textfield with the file the user has tried to upload.

<input style="width:200px; " name="userfile" type="file" id="menu_textbox" value="<?print $target; ?>" />

I am not sure how to approach this. When the user hits submit and the form returns errors . . the files path will not be saved to the database. But as I dont know how to populate type="file" with the file the user already selected, when they hit submit again. obviously no file will be uploaded.

Upload Jpg With Ftp -fine, Upload With Php Wrong File Type!
i've scripted a file uploader, about as basic as you can get, and works on all accounts except that it tells me every single jpg is the wrong file type - BUT i can ftp all these same images and they all behave correctly.

echo filetype($type_file);

//got this warning
Warning: filetype() [function.filetype]: Lstat failed for image/pjpeg
any ideas?

Upload Audio Files Of Type .wav & Video Files Of Type .avi
I need to upload audio files of type .wav & video files of type .avi
/ .mov but my current file unloader is not helping me with that. My
unloader works with application types, images, txt, pdf , mp3, mpg,
mpeg but not with those .wav & .mov/.avi files........

File To Mysql
Is there an easy way to upload file read it on the server with php and then insert the data into a mysql database. I can only control the db via php pages. Using tools is not an option. I think that it will look like this:
1 file uploadbox
1 textbox to specify table
1 textbox to specify columnnames as comma separated file.

The file will be tabdelimited file.

File I/O Vs. MySQL
I'm thinking of building a custom website template system. I haven't
decided whether to use files or MySQL to store page html data. Is there
a performance difference between reading a flat file vs. reading a
database?

Write To File Or Use MySql?
I am laying out the data model for a small real estate site.

So far whenver I needed small databases, I just created regular files as tables, searched them and put out whatever I needed.

Works fine for small apps.

Have only held my nose into Mysql and it seems that I have to do the exact same searches, except there is an additional layer in between.

Now, assuming that the authors of mysql are really good at what they are doing (as opposed to yours truly) I would not lose any speed by using mysql.

But at what KB,amount of tables,.. size does it really make sense to use mysql rather then simply writing into a straight file?

PHP/mySQL Getting .csv File Exported
I had a W2K server with Apache/PHP/mySQL installed and working. I had
a specific page that ran a mySQL SELECT INTO OUTFILE and dumped the
outfile into a web accessible directory. Now mySQL has been moved to
another server and my SELECT INTO OUTFILE no longer works.

mySQL help tells me SELECT INTO OUTFILE only can create a file on the
local system. I've tried mapping a directory with no luck.

I looked into running a mysql -e command from the command line using
php's exec() but I can't get the results into a .csv file like I need.

So, can anyone help me with either getting the mysql -e to spit out to
a comma seperated file or point me in another direction to get the
file out of the DB into a .csv file on the webserver?

Extract From MySQL To Csv-file
I need to output data from a number of MySQL tables in a csv-format where I
first have a header line, then a number of order lines, a new header line,
etc.

What I need is advise on a tool to do this for me, as I assume this is not
possible with for examle MS-Access ?

Will a tool like EMS MySQL Query be of any use? Should mention that I am
absolutely not a programmer, but can use php-myadmin, MS-Access etc.

Loading Csv File Into Mysql
I have discovered the beauties of the 'LOAD DATA INFILE' mysql
command. However, I was wondering if someone could help me manipulate
my command to accommodate for the 3 potential types of line endings --
'
', '
', and '

' (or whatever is the default line ending on
Windows systems).

What I have so far is ...

$query = "LOAD DATA INFILE "$src_file_path" REPLACE INTO
TABLE HB_USPS_ZIP_CODES FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED
BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '
'";
$dbh = mysql_query($query);

FILE Type For MySQL ?

Is there a FILE type in MySQL??? to store files as a column in a registry of certain table?